Youth Sports Forum

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Face-to-face teaching method, with conferences.

Learning Outcomes

The forum was designed as a meeting point between students, professors, researchers, elements from other research centers, international speakers and the community, while a special attention is paid to the inclusion of pre-graduate and post-graduate students, from this second cycle program or from other programs. The general goal is to create a research climate that promotes the emergence of new and creative research projects.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

[1] Knowledge transfer for overcoming limits in sports performance. [2] Relationship between endurance field tests and match performance in youth soccer. [3] Research, knowledge and practice: convergences and divergences. [4] Metabolic kinetics in protocols for rectangular and progressive swimming. [5] Models of critical speed and the assessment of aerobic and anaerobic performance among swimmers. [6] Application of computational dynamics of fluids in swimming. [7] Performance assessment in sport swimming. [8] Fatigue markers variation in swimmers throughout the swimming season.

Head Lecturer(s)

Manuel João Cerdeira Coelho Silva

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Production of a report: 100.0%

Bibliography

GONÇALVES CE, CUMMING SP, COELHO E SILVA MJ, MALINA RM (2008). Sport and Education. Coimbra University Press.

COELHO E SILVA MJ, FIGUEIREDO AJ, ELFERINK- GEMSER MT, MALINA RM (2009). Youth Sports – volume 1: participation, trainability and readiness. Coimbra University Press.

COELHO E SILVA MJ, FIGUEIREDO AJ, ELFERINK- GEMSER MT, MALINA RM (2010). Youth Sports – volume 2: growth, maturation and physical activity. Coimbra University Press.